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Virtual Phone Number Forwarding

Virtual Phone Number Forwarding

What is virtual phone number forwarding?

Virtual phone number forwarding
involves ordering a virtual phone number
which is not tied to a single, physical location. Instead, it is highly portable and can ring to just about any
phone number that you determine it should ring to -worldwide.

For example, you could order a virtual phone number for your business and use the included 'time of day routing feature' of the virtual phone number forwarding service to route calls to your office from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM and then to your voicemail after 5:00 PM.

Or another strategy, should you travel frequently, you may want to change how virtual phone number forwarding
works by changing the 'ring to' number to your mobile phone when you are out of the office and back to a landline when in the office.

Many sales professionals, business consultants, and home-based business owners
use call forwarding numbers to ensure that callers can
quickly reach them no matter where they may be working each day. Others use these call forwarding plans to create
a virtual PBX complete with customized greetings and advanced routing features.

Larger businesses often use virtual phone number forwarding
to create local phone numbers for customers in various cities to call. This creates the impression that the business
is located nearby - and therefore is potentially better able to serve the customer than a competitor located further
away. In fact, callers may never know that a local phone number actually rings at a location across the nation
or even the world.

You can also use virtual phone number forwarding in conjunction with your advertising efforts. Virtual phone numbers are inexpensive and
are billed much like traditional 800 numbers. You
could publish dedicated virtual phone numbers in different advertisements and then evaluate the number of phone
calls each ad generated based on the amount of corresponding virtual phone number forwarding calls received.

For example, if you use virtual phone number forwarding exclusively for a television ad, then you know that all callers who dialed that phone
number saw and responded to your television ad. If only a few calls show up on your call usage report for that
virtual
phone number, then you know the ad was ineffective and either
needs to be revised or canceled. On the other hand, if thousands of calls are documented, then you know your TV
ad was a success.